Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Interview Experts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Interview Experts.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

One of my biggest takeaways from last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in San Francisco was this oft-repeated advice on social networking, specifically Facebook and Twitter: you can't make them come to you. For Mercy Corps, that meant storytelling. We used YouTube to publish videos that supported and extended that content.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Consider the hours of time you spend reading articles and books, attending webinars, conferences and meetings, watching videos, and whatever else you generally do to explore and develop new skills. Make a 20 second thank-you video on your phone and send it to a targeted group of donors (e.g., If not, might there be a better way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. In 2007, over ten years ago, I launched a crowdfunding campaign to participate in the first ever Cambodian bloggers conference, organized by Tharu m and colleagues. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Looking for inspiration or hands-on help with your digital storytelling? Portland, Oregon: Websites as Storytelling Tools: A Case Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. And, if you’re thinking your organization can’t afford to send you to the conference, there are scholarships available for nonprofits folks. Let’s Talk Video for Social Change. No brochures: digital storytelling for nonprofits. Devon Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Last week, I was in Sao Paolo for the ABCR Festival, the leading conference in Brasil for fundraising for nonprofit organizations. I delivered a keynote for Social Good Brasil in 2012 and for a conference on volunteering hosted by Fundação Telefônica in 2014. This was my third visit to the country. Everyone loves a good story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Interview Experts.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

Or are you planning to attend meetings or conferences (or vacation!) Digital Storytelling Apps and Tools. I'm always on the lookout for new digital storytelling tools, especially when they're in the form of mobile apps. This post-production photo editing app lets you add tones and textures to your photos.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Digital Storytelling Challenge. NetSquared organizers were jazzed by the Digital Storytelling Challenge. Ten Net2 groups held Digital Storytelling events in their community, with an estimated 360 attendees. Eight of the eleven cities in the digital storytelling global tweet chat were led by Net2 local organizers.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

These socks were made for walkin'' The 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin, TX was a-mazing! Advice from #15NTC , Tessa Srebro, VolunteerMatch [2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference] Part 1 - How do I configure it? ChangeON Trendspotting: 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Debra Askanase, Community Organizer 2.0

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Summer is a big time for mobile news: there's Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, Microsoft Build, CTIA, and a spree of other mobile-related press conferences. Video-Sharing Apps and Super Smartphone Cameras. Apps like Vine or Instagram (which now has video) let you experiment with storytelling in a shorter format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

It's called Web Video for the Social Benefit Sector. The moderator, Patrick O'Heffernan, shared his thoughts based on his experience with The People Choose which is connected to Link TV and the first non-profit site to launch user-generated video as a community building process in a non profit environment.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

At the 2014 AFP International Conference on Fundraising in San Antonio, Lisa Chmiola and David Tinker helped us through some of the lesser known social media sites that can help your nonprofit with efficiency and productivity. Snapchat is an instant messaging app for photos. And Twitter? You learned that in science class.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

In It's Not You, It's Your Stories at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Steve Daigneault (VP of eCampaigns at M&R Strategic Services ) and Sue Citro (Director of Digital Strategy, Global Programs at The Nature Conservancy ) shared their tips for telling better and more effective stories. Photo: gfpeck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

The theme was about storytelling and one of the cool things we did was create a storytelling assessment rubric. Bill is an incredible storyteller and that has been the key to his fundraising success. Nancy White gave the Keynote at the D2L conference in Duluth yesterday. She has also shared her slides and wiki here.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Christina has presented across the country about topics including social media, multichannel marketing, and website management, most recently at Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits. . Take the opportunity to ask your followers to share their own stories and experiences – in words, photos or videos.

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2019

With these 8 tips, you can elevate your marketing strategy and make this year’s event, whether it be a gala, a conference, or charity event even more successful. We would love to see a representative of [insert respective Employer or University] at our upcoming conference”. Entice them with up-front value. Optimize your landing pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The NetSquared Conference is just days away and the NetSquared blogs are buzzing with activity! Each of the 21 Featured Projects has a project champion who will guide and support the project through conference. They are posting their introductions and photos here. You can find the complete conference agenda here.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

For more ideas, consider attending some of the great crowdfunding conferences coming up this spring. #2: Making a donation is a personal and emotional decision, and powerful storytelling is the best way to help a prospect form a connection with your cause. It needs to be brief and compelling and you might want to consider video.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Include 1 – 3 photos and a short video, if you have one. Provide cutlines with the first and last names of everyone in the photo as well as the photographer. Get release forms from everyone in the photos and videos, in accordance with your organization’s policy. Embed your photos in the email.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The John H Reagan Soul Train Drumline replaced our espresso shots with beats – How else should you set the tone for a conference dedicated to world-changers and philanthropic visionaries? And if we can use the power of photo to show the hard work, memorable images can be ingrained in people’s minds that can last years or even decades.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Stacey Monk, founder of Epic Change There’s an ever-burgeoning number of forums, chats, conferences, meetups destination websites, competitions, you-name-it, for dogooders. Photo by clyatt.jasper ( Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Last week, I spoke at the 140 Characters Conference in NYC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

When will you have the time to go back through hours of video to find and edit the interesting or meaningful parts. Why are they the same size as the person whom I casually had a short conversation with at a conference I don’t even remember? Photos matter. This is often referred to as life caching or lifelogging.

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Care2

MAY 7, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) How many photos were submitted?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." This one is from the UK and from a conference called " Take Back the Web."

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 8, 2024

Perfect your storytelling strategy based on the tactics that have resonated most with donors so far. This could include renderings of the building you want to construct, photos of volunteers lending their support, or infographics that help donors visualize your goals and progress.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Next week, I will be participating in a session entitled, "Reach Out and Blog Someone" along with Steve Swenson of the Bakersfield Californian at the United Way of Kern County's Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits. Ask them to blog during conference sessions and post photos. blog nonprofit net2 nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week, I was honored to deliver the lunch keynote at the 2014 TechNow Conference in Pittsburgh, PA organized by The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University. (My Take a look at the NTEN Crowd Funding Campaign to raise money for scholarships to its annual conference. Objective. Social Strategies.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

With Kindful, your supporters can create and customize their own fundraising pages that let them express their connection to your cause through storytelling, photos, and videos. ePly is one of the best event management software solutions for nonprofits designing and hosting their own conference. Conference app.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Branding themselves as the “Play” button for the Web, Wibbitz automatically converts text-based posts and articles into engaging, interactive videos so your supporters “never have to read again.” Vinepeek gives you a glimpse of Vine’s potential for visual storytelling. Wibbitz :: wibbitz.com.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Content creation, storytelling specifically, is headed in the same direction. Content and stories can be so many different things like videos created by participants, photo blogs from maintenance staff, schedule updates from instructors, sharing lesson plans, etc. Video recordings from trainings on a single topic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

1) Better Petitions: Whether at a conference or on the street, the iPad is an enticing input device. 2) Storytelling: The iPad offers a new format for one-on-one sharing of compelling interactive stories. Showing a lawmaker a photo slideshow, short video, animation, or visualization will feel more natural on a panel than on a laptop.

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